Strong Market Loses Its Punch
AP reports a volatile week on Wall Street as the Dow ends up 28.30 points to 951.01 after a Thursday price ceiling on beef and pork, with mixed weekly gains in major indices and volume of 78.11 million shares. Talcott National led volume. Equity Funding faced trading suspension amid SEC action.
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Associated Press
Richard L. Stern
New York
Nixon
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Standard & Poor
Amex
Talcott National
Fasco International S.A
Talcott
Securities and Exchange Commission
Milwaukee photographers win ribbons at annual convention
Six studio employees attended the Wisconsin Professional Photographers convention in Milwaukee. Charles Allenson Patricia Klimesh Allen Newberry and Wesley Lamb earned ribbons. Mrs William Shuda and Violet Parmenter were selected to attend a two day color print and retouching seminar in Minneapolis hosted by Eastman Kodak. Kenneth E Smith joins Homes by Hoffman as Home Consultant, with family ties to the firm. Cross Country Homes of Holmen launches a new division Cross Country Building Systems as authorized Straw Steel Corp builder. David Torrason becomes unit manager for Sun Life Assurance Phoenix office.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Charles Allenson
Patricia Klimesh
Allen Newberry
Wesley Lamb
William Shuda
Allenson
Caroly Myers
Diane Johnson
Newberry
Shuda
Violet Parmenter
Tri-State
Eastman Kodak Company
Minneapolis
Minn
Cross-Country
Cross-Country Homes
Holmen
Cross-Country Building Systems
Straw Steel Corp
National Steel
Dennis Cook
John Allen
Cook
Allen
David Torrason
David Toraason
la Crosse
Phoenix, Ariz
Sun Life Assurance Co
Canada
Montreal
Toraason
Goodwin E. Toraason
Johnson St
Meat Boycott Plans Continue Amid Price Ceiling Push
The weeklong consumer boycott planned amid Nixon price ceilings on beef pork and lamb as organizers push for price rollbacks. Farmers and livestock groups discuss actions while the National Farmers Organization urged withholding cattle from markets. The period also notes a new dual prime lending rate plan for banks and a labor pact in steel with binding arbitration and no strikes during talks.
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David Burke
NEW York
Nixon
National Farmers Organization
Committee On
United Steelworkers of America
Washington
Commerce Department
U.S
Average Prices Paid For Farm Goods Rose 7 Percent in March
The Agriculture Department reported a 7 percent month to month rise in the USDA prices received index through March 15 led by higher livestock prices. Beef cattle averaged 43.60 per hundredweight, hogs 38.40, lambs 39.50, with wheat at 2.06 a bushel and soybeans at 6.05. Poultry production fell 15 percent in February from the prior month.
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Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Crop Reporting Board
Nixon
Department
Firms To Donate To Marching Drums Corps
Four firms have agreed to donate to La Crosse Marching Drums Corps a share of proceeds from purchases. Money will be split among the Warriors Drum and Baton Corps First Federal Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps and the Cavelets Drum and Baton Corps to pay travel costs and other expenses. Donors include Dubuque Packing Co Coca Cola Bottling Co Consumers Market Inc and Pizza Wagon with per unit or percentage based contributions.
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la Crosse
Warriors
Federal Blue Stars
Cavelets
Kenneth Konzen
Johnson St
Dubuque Packing Co
Coca- Cola Bottling Co
Miller St
Consumers Market Inc
S. 4Th St
Pizza Wagon
State St
Rev Thomas Sewall to lead Evening Eucharist at Christ Church
Grace Church Rice Lake rector and St Mark's Barron vicar Rev Thomas K Sewall will preach at 5 45 PM Eucharist in Christ Episcopal Church location 111 North 9th Street. He joined Eau Claire diocese from Montana in August 1969 and a potluck supper will follow in the undercroft.
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Thomas K. Sewall
Grace Church
Rice Lake
St. Mark’s Church
Barron
Christ Episcopal Church
N. 9Th
Father Sewall
Ordinance Against Dumping Of Leaves In Onalaska
Onalaska residents are reminded of a city rule prohibiting dumping leaves and lawn rakings into streets. Street commissioner William Engstad says bag or box leaves for regular trash pickup, while limbs and larger branches may be left on the boulevard for street department crews.
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Onalaska
Wis
William Engstad
Hygiene Lab Head to Speak on Mycoplasma Infection
Dr. Stanley L. Inhorn director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and UW School of Medicine professor will address St. Francis Hospital medical staff on Mycoplasma infection and clinical illness. He trained at Western Reserve University Columbia University and UW Madison and has Navy service. The lab runs public health disease control diagnostic testing and medical personnel training programs.
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Stanley L. Inhorn
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
St. Francis Hospital
Inhorn
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Ohio
Columbia University
New York City
Uw-Madison
U.S. Navy
UW Madison
Texaco Distributors Plan Gas Rationing In Los Angeles
Texaco distributors in Los Angeles will ration gasoline at 200 service stations starting Sunday as Texaco limits distributor purchases to 1972 levels. About 800 Texaco stations receive fuel directly and remain unaffected. The Times notes distributors nationwide may follow 1972 allocations, while Mobil Oil is cited as similar.
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Los Angeles
Texaco
Los Angeles Times
The
Times
Texaco Inc
Mobil Oil
the Times
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